The incessant drumming was a physical assault. David could feel the vibration in his bones, a constant reminder of the inconsiderate drummer next door. It felt personal, the rhythmic pounding, as if aimed directly at his peace of mind.

He went to the door, his teeth clenched, and gave a sharp rap. The drumming ceased. He pushed past the drummer's greeting, his face a mask of disapproval.

"This is unacceptable," he spat, his voice low and dangerous. "Do you have any idea how it sounds?" He felt his palms sweating.

Emotion: hateful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.71 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.553
S0.367
retali0.313
aggravated0.310
0.308
Suppressed:
la-0.334
own-0.310
optimistic-0.270
been-0.264
gradual-0.262